Congressional Moneyball: Measuring Legislative Effectiveness
If the 113th Congress was a sports team, it would be on a record-breaking streak of futility. Congress passed the fewest number of laws since at least 1947, and frustration with the institution grew. In a new series for FixGov blog, Molly Jackman, Saul Jackman and Brian Boessenecker develop “legislative statistics” to assess which individual members of the team were helping to resolve the problem, and which were exacerbating it.
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